Come again?

"It's an outrage," said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Washington, D.C. good-government group Project on Government Oversight.
"You never want to see lawmakers trading on their national security credentials...to people making large donations," Ellis concurred.

Whatever the nominal substance, be it Homeland Security or anything else, is there anything else that congress critters do except for trade on their, ahem, "credentials"?